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Sustainability is Dead. Long Live Sustainability!
By Peter Giuliano, Director of Coffee and Co-Owner at Counter Culture Coffee I was a young coffee person when the concept of sustainability became big news in coffee. In those days—the roaring ’90s of…
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Critical Issues at Origin | Organizational Capacity Building: Key to Long-term Sustainability
By Warren E. Armstrong The SCAA Sustainability Council serves as a “think tank” for sustainability–related ideas and as a liaison to other industry, professional and NGO organizations. As part of its work, the…
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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role and Reasons for Business Involvement in Sustainable Development
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as the voluntary commitment of businesses to include in their corporate practices economic, social, and environmental criteria and…
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Creating a Global Dialogue via the Culture of Coffee
Story by Majka Burhardt Photos by Travis Horn/Coffee Story Ethiopia Coffee can erase a famine. Agree? Disagree? Wonder just how literally I mean for that statement to be? How about this one: Coffee…
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Why Does Shade Matter?
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, SCAA As the specialty coffee industry grows more concerned with sustainable practices at origin, we often find ourselves in conversations about shade-grown coffee. No one…
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Addressing Hunger in the Coffeelands: The Next Great Sustainability Challenge in Specialty Coffee
By Michael Sheridan Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of working with smallholder coffee farmers in Central and South America as a project manager for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Our…
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Lower Impact Cafés: Simple Steps to Save Now & Contribute to Broader Mitigation Goals
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Feeling the Effects There is an axiom, you cannot manage what you cannot measure. Without hard data, there is a tendency to…
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Responding to Climate Change: Building Community-Based Reliance
by Alexandra Katona-Carroll, on behalf of the Sustainability Council of SCAA In partnership with Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, PROGRESO, REDI and Thanksgiving Coffee Company This year, the SCAA’s Sustainability Council is proud to showcase the…
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Expanding Our Understanding of Sustainability: What We Can Learn from the Retail Food Industry about Employee Wellness
By Samantha Veide As members of the coffee industry we have an opportunity—and a responsibility—to consider our impact on local communities and workplaces, as well as the communities from which we source coffee….
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The Trouble with Cups
By Chad Trewick As a specialty coffee industry we have a hot cup problem, a great big cup problem. Many estimates cite as much as 90 percent of our customers leave our shops…
SCAA Job Opportunity: Senior Event Manager
Reports to: Director of Events Summary SCAA is seeking a Senior Event Manager to design and execute innovative events that appeal to a highly creative community of coffee professionals. SCAA’s…
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April 10, 2012Connecting with the Specialty Coffee Consumer
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April 10, 2012
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Lower Impact Cafés: Simple Steps to Save Now & Contribute to Broader Mitigation Goals
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April 10, 2012
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February 20, 2012
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May 15, 2012Wild Coffee Confirmed on the Upper Boma Plateau, Collected for Genetic Analysis; Or, My Star-Studded Botanical Treasure-Hunt
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April 26, 2012
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April 10, 2012
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February 15, 2012
What is the Shelf Life of Roasted Coffee? A Literature Review on Coffee Staling
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January 17, 2012
New Research Update: The Impact of Coffee Processing on River Water in Ethiopia
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April 10, 2012Sustainability is Dead. Long Live Sustainability!
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April 10, 2012
Critical Issues at Origin | Organizational Capacity Building: Key to Long-term Sustainability
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April 10, 2012
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April 5, 2012Volunteer Highlight: Wendy De Jong, Coffee Buyer/Education Director of Single Origin Roasters, Tony’s Coffees & Teas
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April 4, 2012
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March 29, 2012
Volunteer Highlight: Miguel Vicuna, Barista Trainer of Metropolis Coffee and Aviano Coffee
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March 14, 2012
Volunteer Highlight: Michael Kearby, Roasting Manager of Intelligentsia Coffee
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March 7, 2012
Volunteer Highlight: Darrin Daniel, Head Green Coffee Buyer of Stumptown Coffee Roasters
SCAA Symposium 2012 Day Two
Original posts can be found at Sprudge.com: Day Two, Part 1 | Day Two, Part 2 By Erin Meister Day Two, Part 1 The second morning of Symposium started with a little bit of that…
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New and Noteworthy: The Quest for Decaffeinated Coffee
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SCAA Symposium 2012 Day One
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Roasters Guild Coffees of the Year Competition Top 10 Selected
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Providing Opportunities for Dialogue at 4th Annual Symposium
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What is the Shelf Life of Roasted Coffee? A Literature Review on Coffee Staling
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Direct Trade: Going Straight to the Source
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New Research Update: The Impact of Coffee Processing on River Water in Ethiopia
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Leaving a Bad Taste in Their Mouths?
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Report on the SCAA Chemistry Questionnaire
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The SCAA Goes Mobile Everything You Need to Know About Our New Smartphone App!
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The 5 HR Items Every Business Should Have in Place
Connecting with the Specialty Coffee Consumer
Although specialty coffee has been a movement of twenty-five years or more, we actually know very little about our customers. Who are they, what do they drink, and most importantly, what motivates them?…
SCAA Attendee Project Videos – What is Specialty Coffee?
The Specialty Coffee Association of America invited 2012 Expo Attendees and other coffee lovers to announce to the world what specialty coffee means to them. They entered by creating a 1 minute video…
I Want Coffee, Not Coffee
Or: How I learned to appreciate cream and sugar again By Nicholas Cho Recently, I had the privilege of producing a “person on the street” video segment that was shown during the 2011 SCAA…
Cafe Imports Announces Origin Trip Location for USBC Champs
August 23, 2011 Café Imports www.cafeimports.com Café Imports is proud to announce the 2011/2012 USBC/WBC origin trip sponsorship location has been selected!The 6 regional USBC winners, plus the USBC Champion, and the WBC…
‘After the Harvest’ movie set to premier at SCAA Event
Scroll down to watch the trailer on the You Tube Player. In a recent survey of small-scale coffee farmers in Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, over 67% indicated they were unable to maintain their…
Sustainability Is Off to a Great START
In the last few weeks we’ve been talking a lot about sustainability in the coffee industry. We can all agree that greening the coffee world is something that would benefit everyone in…
SCAA Skill Building in Michigan with Coffee Express
In case you couldn’t make it to the recent SCAA Skill Building Workshop held in Ann Arbor, hosted by Coffee Express, check out the above video! CLICK HERE to subscribe to SCAA‘s You…
We are proud to present the SCAA Event Video!
Watching this video, I have to admit I get a little nostalgic even though it’s only been a little over a month since The Event happened! Thank you to everyone who attended, exhibited,…
